Colson Whitehead Quotes
Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.Colson Whitehead
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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We always trend set.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.
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I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.
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We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.
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Every day, every week without taking decisions is a problem for us, is a very wrong message for the markets and increases the lack of credibility of our economies.
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One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.
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Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.
Colson Whitehead
